5.7 Format Strings

20220526 The date format strings will replace the %X special characters with specific components from the date (and time). For example, based on the result of a call to the function lubridate::now(), which is Friday, 3 March 2023, 20:36:20 PM, the format is %A, %e %B %Y, %H:%M:%S %p.

The format strings that are available include:

%a \(\longrightarrow\) Fri (3 char day name)
%A \(\longrightarrow\) Friday (full day name)
%b \(\longrightarrow\) Mar (3 char month name)
%B \(\longrightarrow\) March (full month name)
%d \(\longrightarrow\) 03 (leading 0 numeric day of month)
%e \(\longrightarrow\) 3 (numeric day of month)
%H \(\longrightarrow\) 20 (numeric hours)
%m \(\longrightarrow\) 03 (numeric month)
%M \(\longrightarrow\) 36 (numeric minutes)
%p \(\longrightarrow\) PM (lower morning or afternoon)
%P \(\longrightarrow\) pm (upper morning or afternoon)
%S \(\longrightarrow\) 20 (numeric seconds)
%Y \(\longrightarrow\) 2023 (4 digit year)
%Z \(\longrightarrow\) AEDT (time zone)

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